New York Yankees at Cleveland Guardians: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYY | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| CLE | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
The Story
The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 at Progressive Field on June 9, 2026, handing Cleveland a loss that the DiamondIQ model's estimate reflected sharply, with the Guardians' pre-game home win probability sitting at 47% before collapsing to 0% by the final out. New York scored twice in the second inning, watched Cleveland answer with two of its own in the third, and then broke the deadlock for good in the eighth. The Yankees managed three runs on eight hits while committing one error, with Cleveland generating slightly more contact at ten hits but ultimately falling short.
The decisive sequence began in the top of the eighth, when Jazz Chisholm Jr. connected on a home run off Tim Herrin, a swing that shifted win probability by plus-18.7 percentage points in New York's favor and proved to be the game-winning blow. Fernando Cruz then took over in the closing innings and authored the defining defensive performance of the night. His most consequential moment came in the bottom of the eighth, where a José Ramírez lineout swung win probability 22.1 points toward the Yankees, erasing what had been Cleveland's most dangerous threat. Cruz returned for the ninth and finished the game by striking out Kyle Manzardo, a sequence that generated a plus-27.0 percentage point swing, the single largest win-probability play of the contest, after Chase DeLauter had briefly extended hope with a walk worth plus-12.3 points. Cruz finished as the top pitcher by WPA at plus-15.9%, with Paul Blackburn contributing plus-10.0% and Camilo Doval adding plus-8.3%.
By final WPA accounting, Angel Martínez led all position players at plus-31.3% despite Cleveland's loss, a figure driven largely by the leverage of the ninth-inning moments he was at the center of, with a RE24 of plus-0.3. Chase DeLauter posted plus-14.4% WPA and a RE24 of plus-0.6 for the Guardians, while Chisholm Jr. finished at plus-14.0% WPA and plus-0.7 RE24 for New York, reflecting how much his eighth-inning home run shaped the game's outcome.